I was working on a puppet module that downloads a file of size over 3GB, unzips
it and update database.Puppet master setup is on CentOS 6.8 and agent running on
Windows 2012R2. I used nginx to serve files. As usual, I used puppet protocol to
download file.
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Couple months back I was asked to look into deployment process of a software
developed using zope, the open source web framework for python. Deployment of
this product is a quite complex process. The complete installation of this
product on 6 servers takes about 5 days. It has 34 components to deploy.
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I noticed that few products have very complex building system. Even experienced
engineers spend good amount of time understanding the build system. Based on
complexity of the build system, it may take few weeks to be productive. It might
take months in some cases. Initial experience will not be smooth for them.
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This is my very recent experiment that I wanted to share with you all. Last
Sunday about 10 cyclists had trip to Turahalli forest. Ride started from
Nagarabhavi. We started around 6:00 AM and back to home by 9:30 AM.
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